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The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World
Noah Charney - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best FriendsScandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catastrophic to businesses and individual careers. A whiff of scandal can turn a politician into a smoking ruin. But these potentially disastrous... |
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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
Max Hastings - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force's 617 Squadron.The attack on Nazi Germany's dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military... |
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Lucy Adlington - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau... |
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The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
Timothy Egan - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of one of the most fascinating and colorful Irishman in nineteenth-century America. The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man.... |
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Inside Bridgerton
SHONDA RHIMES - Scribner / Marysue Rucci Books
Format: Hardcover
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The stunning, full-color, behind-the-scenes look at Shondaland's hit series on Netflix. Inside Bridgerton is the intimate behind-the-scenes story of the hit Shondaland series on Netflix. Shondaland executive producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers offer exclusive insights, and introduce... |
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Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
Orlando Figes - Holt & Company, Henry
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreamsIn this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian... |
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Florida's Lighthouses in the Civil War
Neil E. Hurley - Middle River Press
Format: Hardcover
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Florida s premier Lighthouse historian sets the record straight in this fascinating account of wartime activities at each of the State s 21 Civil War lighthouses. Both sides fought for possession of the towers and their valuable lenses and lamp oil. Through meticulous research, Neil Hurley... |
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
MARGARET A BURNHAM - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director... |
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The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe - Little Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,... |
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